The plan of having a referee for the regular daily practice games of the foot ball eleven works well. The men are now more careful in each little action, no matter how important.

One of the Princeton papers says that the rushers of the eleven are playing finely, but that the half-backs are nor yet very sure in kicking, and are apt to lose the ball when tackled.

An Intercollegiate Athletic Association, composed of members from several New York colleges is to be formed. The colleges represented are: Cornell, Hobart, Hamilton, Madison and Rochester.

At Michigan University, when a class election is held, the meeting is generally humanized by the presence of the young lady students, and the principle of woman suffrage is confirmed by the election of one or more officers from the fair sex.

The Yale Freshmen play their first game of the season with Amherst, '88, at Hartford today. The Amherst Freshmen are said to have a very strong eleven, and a very exciting game is expected.

At the recent game between the Boston University eleven and that of Tufts, Soren, Harvard '83 played half-back for the B. U. The game was closely contested and finally given to Tufts by an unfortunate fumble on the part of the B. U. 's full back.

Who says a man cannot make a good pun in a foreign language ? One of the most distressing that has reached our ears for some time, was perpetrated yesterday by a French instructor of this University.

The students of the Boston Theological University took a vote as to their presidential preferences, with the following result: Blaine, 37; St. John, 22; Cleveland, 2. The students represent 25 different states in the country, and they show 36 per cent. of their votes for St. John.